Word: seafoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference Anne Shipley was the only woman delegate. Americans fell into the habit of introducing her as "the Mayor of Canada." She was much photographed, much interviewed. And there was New York fun for her, too. She had seafood dinners, saw Oklahoma!, shopped for a dinner dress, but found only impossible size...
...quick succession he bought up several small orange-juice companies, started the California Seafood Co. (and put his father in as president), became principal owner of the Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Co. When he got Hunt, he immediately expanded it by adding the dozen small food-packing plants he had cautiously bought up over a ten-year period. In this way he got expansion without the risk of launching new products...
Madame Chiang Kaishek, resting on Brazil's Brocoio Island off Rio de Janeiro (TIME, July 24), was reported inclined toward U.S.-style cooking. Restaurateur Alfredo Balbis, catering to her party, also said that though her diet forbids seafood, she demanded shrimp and got it. Other items in demand: Coca-Cola, mineral water, port...
About 80 Congressmen- and some 180 free riders-sat down with tieless, sport-shirted Bill Jack, ate seafood cocktail with Russian dressing, tiny brown-bread-&-cheese sandwiches, terrapin soup, breast of capon and Virginia ham, potatoes au gratin, lettuce and grapefruit salad, ice cream, demitasse. Well-fed-a few grumbled because there was no liquor-they listened to Lobbyist Jack's proposition...
...priceless the next. Meat and butter have been the latest victims of war shortages. Recently a steward planned to have roast beef for a House dinner. The order was placed and the menu printed, when the dealer announced that he could only procure lamb. Even Boston's great staple, seafood, is becoming scarce as the war intrudes upon the activities of offshore fishermen...